In plain words
They will not hear a good word, though it is told with all one's heart; a bad word, they take straight into the ear; can such people ever come to know Me? However clever they may be, what is the use?
Bad words go direct and settle in these openings of the ears. Good words, though told every day, do not touch them there even a little. So what must we do? We must make the effort that befits divinity. How are we to make God happy? We must strive to come into God's presence. We must go near. We must worship with the feeling of offering. That itself is Ānanda to God. God does not ask to have anything. That too is for your sake alone. Going to sit by his mother is only for the son's own contentment. When he comes near, the mother shows Prema beyond measure. So when we want to go near divinity, reading great, great books or doing great, great sādhanas, all these are merely for passing contentment. Physical contentment. Worldly contentment, mundane contentment. The contentment of pravṛtti. We must have the contentment of nivṛtti. That alone is lasting contentment. That alone is eternal Ānanda, supreme Ānanda, the Ānanda of yoga, the Ānanda of Advaita, Sat-Cit-Ānanda. It is all that same Ānanda. Such Ānanda is right within you. You need not search for it anywhere else. Such Ānanda, which is right within you, you must bring forth.
Embodiments of Prema! Through karma we can reach this sacred place. Purity of the citta and purity of karma: these two must be there. If we develop these resolves so that they are sacred, there is nothing more than this that we need do. All our deeds come to pass just according to our resolves. A small example. A postman comes. What does he do? He comes carrying covers with addresses on them. To one house he gives an envelope. The whole household laughs happily. The postman did not give them that joy. The joy in that letter delights them so.